print

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   availability in printed form

   we've got to get that story into print

2. 2
   noun

   the text appearing in a book, newspaper, or other printed publication

   I want to see it in print

3. 3
   verb

   make into a print

   print the negative

4. 4
   adj

   Of, relating to, or writing for printed publications.

   a print edition of a book

5. 5
   verb

   To produce one or more copies of a text or image on a surface, especially by machine.

   Print the draft double-spaced so we can mark changes between the lines.

6. 6
   verb

   To produce a microchip (an integrated circuit) in a process resembling the printing of an image.

   The circuitry is printed onto the semiconductor surface.

7. 7
   verb

   To write very clearly, especially, to write without connecting the letters as in cursive.

   Print your name here and sign below.

8. 8
   verb

   To publish in a book, newspaper, etc.

   How could they print an unfounded rumour like that?

Etymology

From Middle English *printen, prenten, preenten, an apheretic form of emprinten, enprinten (“to impress; imprint”) (see imprint). Compare Dutch prenten (“to imprint”), Middle Low German prenten (“to print; write”), Danish prente (“to print”), Swedish prenta (“to write German letters”). Compare also Late Old French printer, preindre (“to press”), from Latin premere (“to press”).